Possible to have common assembly dir w/o GAC?

[Dave Kolb]

Hi,

It is possible to reference an assembly in a directory other than in the bin
subdir without registering in ghe GAC?

For instance, I would love to have all my web apps on one server reference
assemblies from a c:\inetpub\wwroot\common directory shared by the apps on
that web server.

Thanks for any ideas.

Dave

 

[John Timney \(Microsoft MVP\)]

If the DLL(s) was thread safe, you could probably create an instance of your
object(s) in the global.asax application_onstart event
and place that object in an application variable. Then all web pages have
access to it as they do to the application objects.

This isn't however a recommended approach and you should use the GAC or
replicate your DLL.


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[Dave Kolb]

What about creating a junction point for each web app that wants to use a
common assembly dir higher up the root using the linkd.exe and then using a
<probing> directive somehow? What are the asp.net runtime rules for locating
assemblies?

Any reason it would not be a nice future asp.net feature to allow a
web.config to reference a common assembly dir to load from without resorting
to the complications of strong names and GAC registration?

Thanks,
Dave

 

[Dave Kolb]

This seems to work fine:

1. cd c:\inetpub\wwwroot\myapp
2. do a "linkd bin2 c:\inetpub\wwwroot\common"
3. put needed modules in the common dir.
4. Add the following to web.config for the app and the app runs with them
and fails if they are not there.
<runtime>

<assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">

<probing privatePath="bin2"/>

</assemblyBinding>

</runtime>

 

[John Timney \(Microsoft MVP\)]

Sounds like you have a solution ..............

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